Report of the Board
summary
Board recounts concrete outcomes: seven new KDE e.V. members added, a spike from 53 to 719 paying supporting members after replacing CiviCRM with DonorBox, and a roughly 13× fundraising boost tied to the Plasma 6 release. Grants continue — a follow-up KDE Eco grant funds Sustainable Software for Sustainable Hardware — and a completed pilot to publish apps in proprietary stores (NeoChat on Windows/Android). Contractors cover events, marketing, documentation, hardware integration and app delivery work; sprints and goals get process changes and new coordination.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction and board members
- 2:52Fundraising and donations growth
- 5:32Partners and affiliations
- 7:03Staff and contractors overview
- 12:05Academy and sprints update
- 13:38Trade shows and events
- 15:29Fundraising and grants
- 18:29Individual project funding
- 19:14KDE goals program changes
- 22:06Financial situation and future plans
- 24:19User engagement and hardware partnerships
- 27:13App store and Flathub initiatives
- 29:29Q&A session
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